Thoughts

Language and the desire to understand

Read against the machine Biophysical soul

A horse-drawn carriage on Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg.
Photograph by Smash the Iron Cage, via Wikimedia Commons; licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of the problems of language is that unless both parties are trying to communicate and understand one another, the attempts at making contact are destined to fail.

Communication without the desire to understand one another, without the corporate aim of seeking truth, can only be manipulative, propaganda, bullshit, or lies.